adrienne
mermaidrienne.bsky.social
adrienne
@mermaidrienne.bsky.social
fat queer and tired✨ (they/them)
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Night Snow
Maud Lewis
c. 1958
December 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Winter is one of the best times to educate people about car-centric policies because when it's snowy you can clearly see how little our cities care about anyone not traveling in a car. Even if you're not some activist, someone walking in winter can appreciate how much an unplowed sidewalk sucks.
This was a choice, not by the person walking but by the decision makers who refuse to prioritize them.

Photo Credit: D_S_J_
December 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Rawan has a really painful gum infection that she desperately needs treated if you can help ❤️
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Rawan. Rawan is a studying to be a doctor in a medical laboratory . She had to stop because she couldn’t afford the fees. Her family is struggling including her siblings Mohammed, 25, Samer, 20, Abdulrahman, 18, Rahaf, 13 and Rafeef, 8.
December 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Quick reminder: you have the right for your health information to be accurate & up to date under Nova Scotia’s Personal Health Information Act (PHIA).

If you can’t edit information directly, check the privacy policy. At minimum should be a contact who can direct requests.
Phew, if you're using the YourHealthNS app, the patient summary is worth a little check...

Mine reads like it's AI-generated, including hallucinations.
December 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Our Request Program makes #masking more accessible. 😷 Help us continue this work by donating today. Your donation will be matched so your money will go further! 💙

donatemask.ca/fundraiser

#GivingTuesdayCa #Masks4All #MaskingIsCaring
December 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids

The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE.

This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE
December 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Spotify Wrapped, YouTube Recap, Amazon Delivered, Apple Replay, and other year-end summaries of what we listened to and watched on streaming platforms, is a reminder that our data is being harvested by corporations we pay to steal our data.
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan
December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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We need to print a wallet sized version of this with HRM-related notes and give one to every member of Halifax Regional Council!!
It's budget time so at the end of our interview w/ Mayor Bachynski, we gave him a printed poster of the image below. It's the density vs services vs taxes venn diagram that @brenttoderian.bsky.social often shares around. It includes Regina-related explanatory notes. #yqrcc

youtu.be/FMwOpoT4IAw?...
November 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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For the record, the traffic diverter would have improved safety not only for cycling, but for pedestrians and drivers as well. The area has speeding issues on Harvard which would be prevented with this diverter. Safety, traffic easing, enhancing other forms of transportation. These are the benefits.
Well, Halifax's newest modal filter – an essential part of the Allan/Oak local street bikeway – lasted less than 24h before being torn out. #BikeHfx
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Not to be too dramatic but if this is true then the province has essentially stripped residents of the HRM of their power as vested in our municipal democracy.
Construction workers told me that the province intervened via the Department of Labour and had them remove the diverter. I haven't confirmed that info in any way however.
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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It’s the 70s forever in this fucking province. We’re never moving into the future.
Well, Halifax's newest modal filter – an essential part of the Allan/Oak local street bikeway – lasted less than 24h before being torn out. #BikeHfx
November 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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New Point in Time count just dropped for Halifax.
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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evergreen
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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okay um, a long time ago I was going to do a sequel zine to this but I got really busy with a job and other things, so I'm just going to post the best of what I managed, free. These are all based off of actual outfits of hers!

I do have a kofi in my bio though if you do feel inclined 😗💋✨
#artpost
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery?

Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!!

Here are 5 other things to know:
November 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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A Saint John-born Trump supporter wants to power a data centre in Lorneville, New Brunswick. The community is fighting back

Story by me

www.halifaxexaminer.ca/ai/a-saint-j...
A Saint John-born Trump supporter wants to power a data centre in Lorneville, New Brunswick. The community is fighting back - Halifax Examiner
Lorneville residents attended a town hall on Nov. 5 where VoltaGrid and Beacon AI tried to make their pitch.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
November 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Let’s start the day off right with some evidence-based hope!

Read more: open.substack.com/pub/goodclim...
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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The divers’ photos provide evidence contrary to ARCP’s claims that the cove habitat is “very poor quality to support significant populations of marine life," reports @suzannerent.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM